BROOKFIELD ZOO

The 'Brookfield Zoo' is a zoo located in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield, Illinois. The zoo covers an area of 216 acres (874,124 m²) and houses around 450 species of animals.
Brookfield Zoo opened on July 1, 1934 and quickly gained international recognition for using moats and ditches, instead of cages, to separate animals from visitors. The zoo was also the first in America to exhibit giant pandas, one of which (Su-Lin) has been taxidermied and put on display in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. In 1960, Brookfield Zoo built the nation's first fully-indoor dolphin exhibit, and in the 1980s the zoo introduced Tropic World, the first fully-indoor rain forest simulation.
Perhaps the most famous resident of Brookfield Zoo was Ziggy, a 6.5 ton bull elephant that was kept in an indoor enclosure for nearly thirty years after it attacked its trainer in 1941. During the 1960s and 1970s, Ziggy attained a cult following in the Chicago area, and the elephant was finally released in 1973 amid much fanfare. Unfortunately, the elephant fell into his exhibit's moat in March 1975 and died seven months later.
One of the zoo's most well-known current residents is Binti Jua, a female Western lowland gorilla. On August 16,1996, a young boy fell into the gorilla exhibit of Tropic World, and Binti Jua carefully cradled the boy and brought him to her trainers. The incident received international attention, inspiring a lively debate as to whether Binti Jua's actions were the result of the training she received from her keepers (who had taught her to bring her own baby, Koola, to zoo curators for inspection) or some instinctive sense of animal altruism.
Another current resident of the zoo as of 2007 is Cookie, a Major Mitchell's Cockatoo who has been part of the zoo's collection since the opening in 1934, making him at least 72 years old. It is interesting to note that Cookie was already an adult when the zoo opened, so he may well be older than he is thought to be.

Contents

Gallery

Partial list of Animals

A - J

K - T

W - Z

External links

See also

Gallery

Partial list of Animals

A - J

'A'

★ Aardvark

★ Addax

★ African Elephant

★ African Giant Millipede

★ African lion

★ African Wild Dog

★ Alligator Snapping Turtle

★ American Alligator

★ Amur Tiger (formerly known as Siberian tiger)

★ Andean Condor

★ Asian Small-clawed Otter

★ Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin
'B'

★ Bactrian Camel

★ Bald Eagle

★ Bali Mynah

★ Bat-eared Fox

★ Binturong

★ Black Rhinoceros

★ Black-handed Spider Monkey

★ Blue Poison Frog

★ Blue-winged Teal

★ Boa Constrictor

★ Bonnethead Shark

★ Brown Bear
'C'

★ California Sea Lion

★ Callimico

★ Caracal

★ Chinchilla

★ Clouded Leopard

★ Colobus Monkey

★ Cottontop Tamarin

★ Cownose Ray
'D'

★ Degu

★ Double-crested Cormorant

★ Double-striped Thick-knee
'E'

★ Eastern Box Turtle
'G'

★ Gambel's Quail

★ Giant Anteater

★ Golden Lion Tamarin

★ Green Heron

★ Green Moray Eel

★ Green-winged Teal

★ Grey Gull

★ Groundhog

★ Guinea Baboon
'H'

★ Half Moon Perch

★ Herman's Tortoise

★ Hippopotamus

★ Hooded Merganser

★ Humboldt Penguin
'I'

★ Ibex

★ Inca Tern

K - T

'K'

★ Kelp Bass

★ Klipspringer
'L'

★ Leopard Shark

★ Lookdown

★ Lowland (or Brazilian) Tapir

★ Little Blue Heron
'M'

★ Mandrill

★ Meerkat

★ Mexican gray wolf

★ Missouri River Otter

★ Micronesian Kingfisher - Guam subspecies

★ Mongoose Lemur
'N'

★ Naked Mole Rat

★ North American River Otter

★ Northern Cardinal
'O'

★ Ochre Sea Star

★ Okapi

★ Orangutan
'P'

★ Pacific Seahorse

★ Pacific Walrus

★ Polar Bear

★ Popeye Catalufa

★ Puerto Rican Boa

★ Pygmy Hippopotamus
'R'

★ Red River Hog

★ Red-capped Mangabey

★ Reindeer

★ Reticulated Giraffe

★ Ring-tailed Lemur

★ Roadrunner

★ Rodrigues Fruit Bat
'S'

★ Sloth Bear

★ Snow Leopard

★ Snowy Egret

★ Sooty Mangabey

★ Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat

★ Spectacled Bear

★ Spider Monkey

★ Striped Skunk

★ Striped Surf Perch

★ Swellshark
'T'

★ Tapir

★ Tiger Salamander

★ Turquoise Tanager

★ Treeshrew

★ Trumpeter Swan
'V'

★ Vampire bat

W - Z

'W'

★ Western Grey Kangaroo

★ Western Lowland Gorilla

★ White-cheeked Gibbon

★ White Ibis

★ Wood Stork

External links

★ http://www.brookfieldzoo.org

★ Crisis Management: Zoo Gains World Fame

See also

★ List of zoos

★ Lincoln Park Zoo

★ Grace Olive Wiley, notable former zoo curator